Higashioka Quotes & Sayings

I have nothing to compain about. I am here to enjoy the breathtaking beauty of nature. — Debasish Mridha

The crunch of bone is what religion thrives on. — Elizabeth Hadaway

In everyage and country, the wiser, or at least the stronger, ofthetwosexes, hasusurped thepowers ofthe state, and confined the other to the cares and pleasures of domestic life. — Edward Gibbon

The other night we talked about literature's elimination of the unessential, so that we are given a concentrated "dose" of life. I said, almost indignantly, "That's the danger of it, it prepares you to live, but at the same time, it exposes you to disappointments because it gives a heightened concept of living, it leaves out the dull or stagnant moments. You, in your books, also have a heightened rhythm, and a sequence of events so packed with excitement that I expected all your life to be delirious, intoxicated."
Literature is an exaggeration, a dramatization, and those who are nourished on it (as I was) are in great danger of trying to approximate an impossible rhythm. Trying to live up to Dostoevskian scenes every day. And between writers there is a straining after extravagance. We incite each other to jazz-up our rhythm. — Anais Nin

The dietician is going to get rid of that when he comes in. Although, first, we've got to get a dietician. — Ian Holloway

I saw us from above, from the sky, two flecks of being connected at the edge of the wide, pale ocean, lost to everything but each other. — Cristina Henriquez

That was the moment my heart threaded with hers. It was as if someone reached down with a sewing needle and stitched my soul to hers — Tarryn Fisher

I've never had a career of that kind of box office power. I've always learned the hard way. — Holly Hunter

Civilization is an enormous improvement on the lack thereof. — P. J. O'Rourke

It had been a good day, all things considered. I had managed rather well on my own. I opened Grandfather's Bible. This is what it would be like when I had my own shop, or when I traveled abroad. I would always read before sleeping. One day, I'd be so rich I would have a library full of novel to choose from. But I would always end the evening with a Bible passage. — Laurie Halse Anderson

One must believe neither the people of the palace, who ordinarily measure the power of the king by the shape of his crown, which, being round, has no end, nor those who, in the excesses of an indiscreet zeal, proclaim themselves openly as partisans of Rome. — Cardinal Richelieu